SLAM POETRY at the SCHOOLHOUSE
Saturday July 21 @ 8 pm
Schoolhouse TheaterArts Center | 3 Owens Road, North Salem, NY 10560
COME SEE THE WHITE PLAINS SLAM POETRY TEAM
Saturday, July 21st @ 8 pm FREE!
The event is open to all. Led by Slam Poet Eric ‘Zork’ Alan, they are a gifted, Nationally Ranked Team and are hosted by the White Plains Library, and will compete at The National Poetry Slam Championships in Chicago August 13th-18th
Admission is free at the Schoolhouse on Saturday July 21st!
What is a poetry slam? A poetry slam is a competition in which poets perform spoken word poetry. Poetry slams began in Chicago in 1984 with its first competition designed to move poetry recitals from academia to a popular audience when American poet Marc Smith began experimenting with existing open microphone venues for poetry readings by making them competitive.[1] The performances at a poetry slam are judged by a panel of judges, typically five, and usually selected from the audience, or sometimes judged by audience response.[2] The judges usually give each poem a score on a scale of 0–10 (zero being the worst and ten being the best). The highest and lowest scores are dropped and the middle three are kept. The highest score one can receive is 30 and the lowest is zero. - Wikipedia